Vendor Spotlight: 1Call, A Division of Amtelco

Working together to provide the very best communication product solutions, backed by the best support available

Since 1976, Amtelco has provided innovative communication solutions to call centers around the world. In 1997, the 1Call Division was formed to offer enterprise-wide communication solutions designed specifically for healthcare organizations. 1Call is dedicated to serving the unique call center and communication needs of healthcare organizations, helping improve communication between patients, physicians, and staff by connecting people and information. Amtelco has been awarded twenty-eight patents, covering a wide range of communications processes.

Hospitals and healthcare organizations around the world turn to 1Call to solve their medical call center, answering service, on-call scheduling, call handling, secure messaging, voice processing, conference calling, and automated middleware notification needs. An independent survey, conducted by TMA+Peritus in February 2015, found that 100 percent of the respondents said they would highly recommend Amtelco and 1Call to another healthcare organization.

Five-Star Service and Support

Amtelco and 1Call are well known for continually developing comprehensive call center and communication solutions, all backed by five-star after-the-sale service and support. Customer advocates and account managers are available to help customers and answer questions before, during, and after the sale.

1Call’s customer support staff includes implementation specialists, installers, project managers, and technical support staff. The customer support staff has an average tenure of over fifteen years, which is unheard of in technology and IT businesses. All support staff members reside in the United States. While most staff members work in the Midwest home office, there are several regional offices around the United States.

Help When Needed

When 1Call customers need help, it’s just a phone call away. They can also email the support team or even access the exclusive online TechHelper tool, with documentation, manuals, videos, and training tools. TechHelper is available 24-hours a day, with unlimited access. Emergency assistance for 1Call systems is also available 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.

Support agreements include software upgrades, which help ensure that 1Call customers always have access to the newest features.

The TMA+Peritus customer satisfaction survey also found that 97 percent of the respondents said the Amtelco and 1Call service and support was excellent. 1Call looks forward to partnering with more healthcare organizations to provide this same level of service.

Solutions That Work

1Call features a complete line of modular solutions specifically designed to streamline enterprise-wide communications, eliminate errors, and reduce training time for new operators. The specialized 1Call solutions save an organization’s limited resources, making each organization more efficient and bringing wellness to their members and their bottom line.

Each 1Call solution comes with the benefit of Amtelco’s years of experience in the field of call handling and messaging. Thousands of 1Call and Amtelco systems are in operation around the world, 24 hours each day.

Easily Customizable

1Call understands that every healthcare organization has unique needs, and they sometimes receive unusual requests from physicians and departments. That’s why 1Call offers powerful solutions that are easy to customize by the customer. Customers have access to a wide variety of administrative functions, including the ability to customize scripts for any department, with individual scripts for every physician, if needed.

When additional help is required, 1Call also has a scripting team to assist customers with any specific requests.

Why Choose 1Call?

Hospitals continually recommend 1Call solutions to other healthcare organizations, so more healthcare organizations continue to switch to 1Call solutions. And it’s no wonder. With all the customizable hospital call center solutions available, the high levels of customer satisfaction, and quality support services, 1Call is in a class by themselves.

What do customers have to say about switching to 1Call? Here’s one example: “It was a great decision switching to Infinity. The 1Call technology is innovative. It’s easy to learn, and it really seems to mold around what the particular needs of our hospital are. Everything runs so much more smoothly now. I think it’s also worth noting, the customer service—great. We couldn’t be happier.”

Strong Partner Relationships

1Call forms solid partnerships with their customers. Each organization is encouraged to work closely with the 1Call team of consultants and engineers through each phase of system planning, configuration, and implementation. This helps ensure that the 1Call systems are at their optimum performance levels to meet all the communication needs of their organizations.

1Call also works closely with key technology partners to provide organizations with the solutions that best fit their communication and technology requirements. 1Call’s partners integrate at a high level with the call center, on-call scheduling, HIPAA secure messaging, alarm management, and emergency notification solutions to produce a comprehensive solution that satisfies the needs of each organization.

The 1Call Technology Partnerships include:

American Messaging

Apple iOS Developer Program

Avaya DevConnect Community

Black Box

Cisco Solution Partner Program

Cisco Developers Network

Copia OEM Partner

GENBAND Partner Program

Google Play Developer

Health Level 7 International (HL7)

HISCALL

Interactive Intelligence Global Alliance

Microsoft Developers Network

Mitel Solutions Alliance

NEC UNIVERGE Solutions Partner Program

SAP OEM Partnership Program

ShoreTel Innovation Network Alliance Partner

Spectralink Application Integration and Management Solvers Program

Unify (formerly Siemens) Technology Partners—Advanced Level Status

Vocera Solution Partner Program

Windows Development Center Member

One Company, One Solution

The development and customer support teams work together closely in the Innovation Way hallway at the Amtelco and 1Call home office. When a question arises, it’s a quick walk down the hall to find the solution. One company, one solution, proudly located in the USA.

Recent Innovations

As customers have come to expect, Amtelco and 1Call continue to create innovative solutions. In addition to frequent enhancements to Intelligent Series, Soft Agent, and miSecureMessages, the newest innovations are MergeComm and Genesis.

The MergeComm Integration Engine

Designed to automate communications throughout an organization, MergeComm speeds response times to help organizations provide better patient care. MergeComm takes an incoming message and uses a script to determine who needs to receive that information. MergeComm accepts messages from a wide variety of sources, including alarms, alerts, HL7 messages, nurse call, severe weather alerts, TCP, WCTP, and web services. Notifications can be sent to an individual, an entire group, or the current on-call personnel. Delivery options include email, miSecureMessages, IP phones, pagers, phones, smart devices, SMS, and Vocera badges.

The Genesis Software Switching Solution

Genesis provides the Intelligent Series applications with advanced software-based telephony. Genesis provides an all-inclusive call center solution with ACD, call management, reporting, and call center applications based on the Intelligent Series. A few of the many benefits of Genesis include reducing the need for hardware, virtualization of the switching platform, integrating with SIP-enabled PBXs, connecting remote agents, and automated overhead paging.

More to Come

As technology continues to evolve and as customers have new communication challenges, 1Call and Amtelco will continue to develop new innovative solutions, as they have for over forty years.